Education

PEEC Sponsors Story Walk

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Courtesy/PEEC

PEEC News:

The Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) continues its Summer Family Evenings series with a unique program combining two favorite summer activities, reading and nature walks.

This collaboration between PEEC and the Los Alamos County Library System is 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6.

The StoryWalk® Project is a national program created by Anne Ferguson of Montpelier, Vt., and developed in collaboration with the Vermont Bicycle and Pedestrian Coalition and the Kellogg-Hubbard Library. PEEC has adopted this fun and unique concept for its final Summer Family Read More

Los Alamos County Council to Vote on Resolution Supporting Mil Levy Campaign

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UNM-LA News:

The Los Alamos County Council is scheduled to vote on a resolution during today’s Council meeting supporting the upcoming mil levy election being put before Los Alamos
County voters Sept. 17.

The money generated by the 2-mil increase will be used to fund programs at The University of New Mexico-Los Alamos (UNM-LA). If passed, this would mean the first operational increase since the branch campus was formed in 1980.

According to the resolution, Council recognizes the importance education has played in the long-term success of the Los Alamos community and the achievements Read More

Rare Chance to Explore Abandoned Copper Mine

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Nacimiento Copper Mine site. Courtesy photo

PEEC News:

The Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) is offering a rare chance to visit the abandoned Nacimiento Copper Mine near Cuba Aug.10.

The trip, led by local geology expert Patrick Rowe, will be fun and hands-on for both adults and children. Participants will explore the area, with ample chances to find beautiful specimens such as petrified wood.

Specimens found at the Nacimiento Cooper Mine site. Courtesy photo

In addition to petrified wood specimens, which are regularly covered with exquisite green malachite and blue azurite, Read More

Kiwanis Club Presents Scholarship to Erin Kirk

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The Los Alamos Kiwanis Club presented Erin Kirk with a scholarship recently. Erin will be attending the University of New Mexico and will study communication or education. From left, Her father Alan Kirk, mother Pat Kirk, Erin Kirk and Kiwanis President Don Casperson. Erin was selected because of her contribution to the community through Los Alamos Youth Leadership for the past four years and her leadership in spearheading the “Dig In Pink” as a fundraiser for a volleyball coach who had developed cancer. Kiwanis meets each Tuesday at noon at Trinity of the HIll Church in Kelly Hall. Read More

New Option Available For LAHS Registration

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LAHS News:

Registration for Los Alamos High School is rapidly approaching. Registration will take place Aug. 5-8. 

This year Los Alamos High School is excited to announce a new option to pay online that will be a timesaver for students and their parents. 

Aug. 1, students’ schedules for the 2013-14 school year will be available on PowerSchool, which is accessible on the Los Alamos Schools website at https:////laschools.net/lahs.  Prior to registration, parents can go onto PowerSchool and get their student’s schedule. Then they can go to the LAHS home page and Read More

Michelangelo Lobato Leaving Teen Center

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Director Michelangelo Lobato of the Los Alamos Teen Center is leaving to become a school counselor at Chamisa Elementary School. Lobato is credited with doing an outstanding job leading the Teen Center and mentoring the youth. A search for his replacement is underway. Courtesy photo

Position Summary:
The person selected for this position will be responsible for the overall development and administration of the Teen Center programs and activities.
Essential Functions and jub duties include:

  • Enforce set standards for qualified staff and safe programs
  • Hire, train, supervise, evaluate
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Julie’s Helpers Memorial Scholarships Awarded

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Valentina Dawn Chee, left, and Celine Yazzie Olson are the recipients of Julie’s Helpers Memorial Scholarships for 2013. Courtesy photo

Staff Report

Before her passing from a brain tumor in December of 2009, Julie Meadows and her family got all kinds of practical help from friends, the community and fellow church members, organized as “Julie’s Helpers.”  

Launched in May 2011, the annual Julie’s Helpers Memorial Scholarship Fund seeks to provide the kind of practical help that Julie would have been proud of. Wife, mother of two young sons, respected LANL staffer, Read More

Kiwanis Awards Christina Moore the Jeannette O. Wallace Scholarship

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The Los Alamos Kiwanis Club presented Christina Moore with the Jeannette O. Wallace Scholarship in memory of longtime Kiwanian and State Rep. Jeannette Wallace. Christina will be attending Maclester College in St. Paul, NM and will study International Studies. From left, Christina’s mother Tammy Moore, her father David Moore, Christina Moore, Terry Wallace, son of Jeannette Wallace and Kiwanis President Don Casperson. Christina was selected because of her strong leadership in Key Club, a Kiwanis program for students, Natural Helpers and her work with her church. Kiwanis meets Read More

Unleash Your Inner Cowboy on Wild West Weekend

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A young buckaroo gets up close and personal with a lasso. Photo by Cheron Bayna Ryan

NMHM News:

SANTA FE—Immerse yourself in cowboy culture Aug. 9-11 at the New Mexico History Museum’s Wild West Weekend, a special event celebrating the exhibition Cowboys Real and Imagined.

Cowboy musicians and poets join trick ropers, saddle makers, silversmiths and more to provide three days of hands-on fun for the whole family. The events are free; the exhibition is by regular admission (Sundays free to New Mexico residents, Friday evenings free to everyone, children 16 and under free daily.)

“We’ve seen Read More

SFI Lecture Tackles What Tomorrow’s University Must Be

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Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University. Courtesy photo

SFI News:

The Santa Fe Institute will host a Community Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 31 at the James A. Little Theatre on the campus of the NM School For The Deaf, 1060 Cerrillos Road in Santa Fe.

The lecture, by Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University, is titled, “New Problems, New Partnerships: What Tomorrow’s University Must Be.” SFI Lectures are free and open to the public. Seating is limited.

In a relatively brief 150 years, human demands on natural systems have, perhaps irrevocably, brought us to an inflection Read More